Knitspiration

Introducing another one of my regular features 'Knitspiration', a feature that will appear randomly throughout my blog history and which will give an insight into the sorts of things I aspire to create, things that inspire me, or simply things I admire. 

Beautiful Blankets 

I've never had the patience, or enough wool, to make a blanket - that's more Miffy's area of expertise - but these two are stunning. If I ever managed to master the art of fair isle then this will be the first project on my list. I absolutely love that Swedish style and the colour combinations.

I love the delicate knitted section of this simple blanket contrasted with the chunky, funky crochet edging. Once I learn to crochet I may try this technique.

Black & White

I love this knitted head band and this girl. Her hair has the sort of volume I can only dream of achieving, and this retro style is one of my favourites. If I make this headband I will probably try and replicate this photo (!)

Bette Davis looking fabulous here.

Check out Russel Crowe! (He totes came to Jersey for the Superman premier).

Jumpers

I have a small obsession with knitted jumpers (preferably baggy, 1990s ones). I have knitted myself one and worn it to death, it is now safely folded in a drawer because if I wear it too much it may fall apart.

I love this arty photo, this stitch looks lovely along with the colour of the wool.

Christmas present please.

Woops she forgot to put on trousers... I realllllly love this jumper, this will probably be my first project after my wool-athon.

There are so many more knitspirations that I want to post today but I think I should spread them out a bit (even though the list will have doubled before my next post) otherwise this post will go on forever.

Weekend Creativity // *regular features*

I have decided to take this blog seriously, and properly dedicate time to it. In order to do so I will be introducing some regular features; some of which I made up myself ("I'm in the fourth grade, I can make things up myself!"**) some of which were inspired by other blogs. These features will include:

• Knitspiration: I am constantly inspired for future knitting projects by images, other people, magazines, films etc. and I will post some of my inspirations in this regular feature.
• Just Another Miffy Monday: My mum is a knitter and Crochet Queen and she has agreed to let me do a regular post on her and her projects and inspirations.
• A Few Of My Favourite Things: What it says on the tin really, favourite films, songs, books, artists, singers, anything I can think of! 

So that's what's coming up, now for today's post...

My mum discovered this AMAZING new spread, it literally tastes exactly like those biscuits you get with your coffee: so good.

My dad put up this new clock and some pictures today, I thought it looked really stylish; a classic gentleman's study. I really love that photo of Sean Connery as James Bond. 

I went to Paperchase and treated myself to this cardboard folder. I printed off all of my free patterns and put them in there. One step closer to being a more organised and economical knitter!

Here are some of my magazines and pattern books that I found too.

I really love this folder, and it's perfect for patterns. 

Tomorrow is a bank holiday and I will try and finish my Mini Fox then, my scarf is coming on nicely, I've done two more colours since I last posted about it.

** This is a quote from one of my favourite films, Dan In Real Life, I highly recommend it if you are looking for a relaxing feel-good film.

Before the wool-athon

I currently have two projects on the go which I need to finish before I begin with my

MIGHTY WOOL-ATHON

I started a project during the Easter holidays and have all but put it together.

This will one day (soon) look like this:

He's called a 'Mini Fox Collar', the small version of the original pattern 'Mr. Fox-Stole My Heart'. I love all of Stephanie Dosen's patterns and her blog is brilliant too. The reason my Mini Fox is yet to be completed is because of one tiny little detail: magnets. You can see in the pictures above that Mini Fox's chin stays perfectly on his bottom, this is because there are two small-but-powerful magnets keeping him held in place. I ordered my magnets off Amazon and they took four weeks to arrive! By the time they had reached Jersey I was deep into final-year essays and didn't have time to sew him up. The end result will be posted shortly.

My other project on-the-go-at-the-mo is a simple scarf:

I was on holiday in the Lake District with my family recently, and my mum and I made our usual visit to our favourite Kendal wool shop "William's Wools". 

THEY HAD A SALE ON

I found this beautiful Rowan Handknit Cotton  for HALF PRICE - I couldn't believe it. I bought 10 balls and could not wait to get home and use it for something, anything, it didn't matter I just had to have that wool at that price. (I just went to the Rowan website in order to create the link above and took a look at the full range of colours... man I want them all now.)

I decided to make this striped scarf with the wool, it's kind of Tom-Baker-Doctor-Who-esque (massive Doctor Who fan, not even gonna try and hide it), and will help me to look studenty when I'm prancing around Durham doing my Masters. 

SO. When Mini Fox is actually a fox and my scarf is all finished THEN I will start the wool-athon. I have already found some patterns to try for little hearts, and I went through all of my Love Knitting emails and printed out all of the free patterns I have stocked up. 

I shall end today's post with a picture of my little helpers, Ruby and Binkie. Ruby is a helper, Binkie is a hindrance.

Ruby the helper...

... Binkie the diva.